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LiveSealMichael Scheuer reveals that the Israeli Lobby corrupts congress to the
point where American foreign policy is warped to serve the needs of
Israel. This, he states, is dragging America into wars in the Middle
East.
Ya think?http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b84_1438534434LiveSealIzrahell lobbywars, israel, terrorRepublican candidate Donald Trump's platform: Because I said so! He sounds like Reagan(who added 2* the debt Obama will) ?Sun, 02 Aug 2015 05:38:38 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f7_1438508109
gypsyDonald Trump wants to make America great again. This is how he wants to do it:
If Trump were elected president, he says, he would launch the U.S. government into a massive building project - and a massive manhunt - both at once.
On the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump would build a long, impenetrable wall. In the rest of the country, he would pressure the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to "self-deport" - and, if they don't, round them up to deport en masse. Later, Trump says, "the good ones" could come back.
He also wants to go on a building spree.
Modern new VA hospitals. Better bridges, highways, railroads. A new floor at LaGuardia Airport, to replace that shabby terrazzo Trump hates. And, to pay for it all, Trump would not raise taxes. He'd lower them.
Instead, Trump would get other countries to start paying the United States large new sums of money - and agree to receive nothing in return. China, for instance, would pay for new tariffs. Mexico would even pay for America's new border wall.
"They're not going to pay for the wall," Fox News host Bill O'Reilly told Trump this summer.
"You have to let me handle that, okay?" Trump said.
Trump, a billionaire real-estate developer and -reality-TV star, has surged to the lead in the Republican presidential nominating contest using a showman's flair and anti-immigrant and anti-Washington rhetoric.
But, so far, he's missing something basic: a policy platform. A formal list of Trump's ideas for America.
"They're all done," Corey Lewandowski, his campaign manager, said in a recent radio interview. Not that they're going to share them or anything. "They're done and we're waiting, you know, for our schedule," Lewandowski said.
Nonetheless, Trump has already explained pieces of his vision - in this year's speeches and interviews, and in "Time to Get Tough," a political book he wrote four years ago.
At times, those ideas make Trump sound like a conservative Republican. He wants to repeal "Obamacare." He has called global warming "bull----." He wants to end the Common Core education program and renegotiate the nuclear deal with Iran. But, at other times, he sounds more like a Democrat: Trump, for instance, rejects GOP plans to overhaul Medicare.
In other areas, Trump's ideas seem to defy both parties' orthodoxies. And sometimes, to defy logic.
To square the circles in his vision - to explain how he will do things that seem implausible - Trump's answer is usually himself. That is the heart of Trump-ism, the glue that holds the agenda together - the man's own sky-high self-confidence.
President Trump's vision would work because Trump would be president.
"Trump is like your Uncle George at Thanksgiving dinner, saying he knows how to solve all the problems. It's not that he's always wrong. It's just that he's an auto mechanic, not a policy guy," said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which calls for reduced immigration.
Krikorian actually agrees with Trump that illegal immigration is a major problem. But he's frustrated by Trump's ideas to fix it - such as a suggestion to charge Mexico $100,000 for "every person they send over" across the U.S. border.
"Charging them, how? For what?" Krikorian said. "It's just Uncle George at Thanksgiving, kind of holding forth."
In a phone call Saturday evening, Trump rejected arguments that his ideas - particularly those about building bigger projects on lower taxes - were implausible.
"It's not implausible, because we're going to make the economy sing," he said. Trump said that under his leadership, more jobs and more growth would make up for lower tax rates.
He was asked whether - in the course of his campaign - he had encountered any issue where the situation was more complicated than he'd first believed. The answer seemed to be no.
"Life is complicated. But this is not complicated, believe me," he said. He assured a reporter that he would like America under Trump: "You'll be happy, believe me. You'll be happy."
The candidate was in Scotland late last week, visiting one of his golf courses. In his phone call with The Washington Post on Saturday, Trump was asked about a question raised by conservatives.
If he became president, were there any major parts of the federal government he wanted to cut?
Trump said he would cut portions of the Education Department - where he wants to eliminate Common Core - and parts of the Environmental Protection Agency. He cited clean-air enforcement as an area where regulators have become too burdensome.
For now, Trump's lack of a detailed campaign platform hasn't stopped his campaign. He leads the Republican field by at least six percentage points in poll averages. That would be enough to put him at center stage for the first presidential debate on Thursday night.
"It's not so much what I like about him. It's what I dislike about everything else in Washington," explained Skip Houston, 51, an airline pilot from Georgia and a Trump supporter. Houston said he admired Trump's raw approach and his ridicule of Washington's culture of fundraising and favors.
But what about Trump's policy ideas? "He hasn't really gotten that in-depth yet," Houston said.
Did that bother him? "It's too early" Houston said. "There's over a year to go."
One thing is clear: Trump has reversed several positions from his past.
In 1999, contemplating a possible presidential run, Trump said he was pro-choice. Today, he is against abortion. He previously praised the idea of a national, single-payer health-care system. Today, while aiming his fire at the president's health-care law, he doesn't.
Trump also seems to have backed off another unusual idea: a one-time mega-tax on the nation's very wealthy. In 2000, Trump advocated a 14.25 percent tax on people with a net worth over $10 million, which he estimated would raise $5.7 trillion and pay off the national debt in one swoop.
"It's a win-win for the American people but an idea that no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward," Trump wrote in his 2000 book, "The America We Deserve."
Trump doesn't mention that idea now.
"The numbers no longer work," because the national debt is higher, said one longtime friend, who asked for anonymity in order to speak about Trump's thinking without authorization from his campaign. "It was a good idea at the time. We should've done it. We'd be out of debt now. Or maybe not."
Today, when Trump talks about taxes, he usually talks about lowering them.
He has called for eliminating the estate tax. Lowering personal income taxes. Other Republicans say the same. But Trump has gone much further in one respect. In his 2011 policy book, "Time to Get Tough," Trump called for eliminating the income tax on corporations entirely: "A zero percent corporate tax would create an unprecedented jobs boom," he wrote.
But it would also open a sinkhole in the federal budget. About 9 percent of all government revenue would vanish.
At the same time, Trump has contemplated expensive new plans. To fight the Islamic State, for instance, he has advocated a military campaign aimed at removing the oil out from under the militants' territory.
"Take back their wealth. Take back the oil. . . . You bomb the hell out of them and then you encircle it, and then you go in" with an oil company, Trump has said. "Once you take that oil, they have nothing left. And it's so simple."
Oil-industry experts expressed skepticism about this plan. Skepticism, in fact, may not be a strong-enough word. They noted, for instance, the difficulty of finding a company willing to get oil out of an active war zone, and that depleting the area's relatively minor oil fields might still take decades.
"That is sheer lunacy on so many counts, it's hard to start," said David Goldwyn , a former State Department special envoy for energy in the Obama administration.
At the same time, Trump - a real-estate developer now imagining himself in charge of the largest property owner in the country - has a lot of ideas for things to build at home.
Highways. A fortified border. Better VA hospitals to replace what Trump called "outdated dumps."
"When he comes up against a problem, his reflexive answer is that we'll do something to fix it that's going to cost more money," said Michael Tanner, of the libertarian Cato Institute.
He said Trump had not explained enough about how these big projects would be paid for as tax revenue declined. "You can't spend more and collect less. That's kind of basic math," Tanner said. "You can argue about how the math adds up in the other people's plans. But there's math there. This, there's just no math."
That's where the other countries come in.
In his 2011 book, for instance, Trump called for a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from China if China wouldn't stop unfair trade practices. Trump has also called for increased tariffs on imports from Mexico in order to pay for his wall.
He would also threaten American companies with tariffs if those companies wanted to shift U.S. jobs overseas.
"I would call up the head of Ford, who I know. If I was president, I'd say, 'Congratulations. I understand that you're building a nice $2.5 billion car factory in Mexico and that you're going to take your cars and sell them to the United States, zero tax,' " Trump said during his campaign announcement. "So I would say, 'Congratulations. That's the good news. Let me give you the bad news . . . we're going to charge you a 35 percent tax.' "
But these plans would not be easy. Even for President Trump.
Even if Trump could get Congress to approve new tariff increases, for instance, they would likely violate existing trade agreements. And they would hit Americans in the pocketbook by making imported goods more expensive. And, probably, they would trigger retaliations from other countries, which would raise their own tariffs and hurt U.S. exports.
"If you thought this had a ghost of a chance - which it doesn't - you would sell all your stocks," because of the damage that a trade war would do to the U.S. economy, said Gary Hufbauer , of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Hufbauer said that the United States has spent decades trying to lower tariffs worldwide. "This would be the U.S. kind of going into the insane asylum," he said. "It would be blowing up the system which we have created since the Second World War."
In Trump's plan, the thing that makes it all work is . . . Trump. This confidence is not new. Back in 2000, Trump wrote that - if elected president - he would appoint a new U.S. trade representative.
Guess who.
"My lawyers have checked, and the president has this authority," Trump wrote then. "Our trading partners would have to sit across the table from Donald Trump."
This year, Trump said he believed those same deal-making skills could also improve U.S. relations with an unpredictable rival: Russian President Vladi-mir Putin.
"I would be willing to bet I would have a great relationship with Putin. It's about leadership," he told Fox's O'Reilly.
"Based on what?" O'Reilly asked. "You're two macho guys?"
"Based on a feel."
"Just a feel?"
"Based on feel," Trump replied
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-trump-platform-because-i-said-so/2015/08/01/4684802c-36f7-11e5-9739-170df8af8eb9_story.htmlhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f7_1438508109gypsyRepublican candidate Donald Trump's platform: Because I said so! He sounds like Reagan(who added 2* the debt Obama will) ?Sounds, like, Reagan, who , added, the, same , debt , as, baby bush, and , Obama , combined Donald Trump:Make China pay for taking our jobsSun, 02 Aug 2015 01:52:26 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=df5_1438494398
frenemyoftheCentury
Donald Trump wants to make America great again. This is how he wants to do it:
If Trump were elected president, he says, he would launch the U.S. government into a massive building project - and a massive manhunt - both at once.
On the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump would build a long, impenetrable wall. In the rest of the country, he would pressure the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to "self-deport" - and, if they don't, round them up to deport en masse. Later, Trump says, "the good ones" could come back.
He also wants to go on a building spree.
Modern new VA hospitals. Better bridges, highways, railroads. A new floor at LaGuardia Airport, to replace that shabby terrazzo Trump hates. And, to pay for it all, Trump would not raise taxes. He'd lower them.
Instead, Trump would get other countries to start paying the United States large new sums of money - and agree to receive nothing in return. China, for instance, would pay for new tariffs. Mexico would even pay for America's new border wall.
"They're not going to pay for the wall," Fox News host Bill O'Reilly told Trump this summer.
"You have to let me handle that, okay?" Trump said.
Trump, a billionaire real-estate developer and -reality-TV star, has surged to the lead in the Republican presidential nominating contest using a showman's flair and anti-immigrant and anti-Washington rhetoric.
But, so far, he's missing something basic: a policy platform. A formal list of Trump's ideas for America.
"They're all done," Corey Lewandowski, his campaign manager, said in a recent radio interview. Not that they're going to share them or anything. "They're done and we're waiting, you know, for our schedule," Lewandowski said.
Nonetheless, Trump has already explained pieces of his vision - in this year's speeches and interviews, and in "Time to Get Tough," a political book he wrote four years ago.
At times, those ideas make Trump sound like a conservative Republican. He wants to repeal "Obamacare." He has called global warming "bull----." He wants to end the Common Core education program and renegotiate the nuclear deal with Iran. But, at other times, he sounds more like a Democrat: Trump, for instance, rejects GOP plans to overhaul Medicare.
In other areas, Trump's ideas seem to defy both parties' orthodoxies. And sometimes, to defy logic.
To square the circles in his vision - to explain how he will do things that seem implausible - Trump's answer is usually himself. That is the heart of Trump-ism, the glue that holds the agenda together - the man's own sky-high self-confidence.
President Trump's vision would work because Trump would be president.
"Trump is like your Uncle George at Thanksgiving dinner, saying he knows how to solve all the problems. It's not that he's always wrong. It's just that he's an auto mechanic, not a policy guy," said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which calls for reduced immigration.
Krikorian actually agrees with Trump that illegal immigration is a major problem. But he's frustrated by Trump's ideas to fix it - such as a suggestion to charge Mexico $100,000 for "every person they send over" across the U.S. border.
"Charging them, how? For what?" Krikorian said. "It's just Uncle George at Thanksgiving, kind of holding forth."
In a phone call Saturday evening, Trump rejected arguments that his ideas - particularly those about building bigger projects on lower taxes - were implausible.
"It's not implausible, because we're going to make the economy sing," he said. Trump said that under his leadership, more jobs and more growth would make up for lower tax rates.
He was asked whether - in the course of his campaign - he had encountered any issue where the situation was more complicated than he'd first believed. The answer seemed to be no.
"Life is complicated. But this is not complicated, believe me," he said. He assured a reporter that he would like America under Trump: "You'll be happy, believe me. You'll be happy."
The candidate was in Scotland late last week, visiting one of his golf courses. In his phone call with The Washington Post on Saturday, Trump was asked about a question raised by conservatives.
If he became president, were there any major parts of the federal government he wanted to cut?
Trump said he would cut portions of the Education Department - where he wants to eliminate Common Core - and parts of the Environmental Protection Agency. He cited clean-air enforcement as an area where regulators have become too burdensome.
For now, Trump's lack of a detailed campaign platform hasn't stopped his campaign. He leads the Republican field by at least six percentage points in poll averages. That would be enough to put him at center stage for the first presidential debate on Thursday night.
"It's not so much what I like about him. It's what I dislike about everything else in Washington," explained Skip Houston, 51, an airline pilot from Georgia and a Trump supporter. Houston said he admired Trump's raw approach and his ridicule of Washington's culture of fundraising and favors.
But what about Trump's policy ideas? "He hasn't really gotten that in-depth yet," Houston said.
Did that bother him? "It's too early" Houston said. "There's over a year to go."
One thing is clear: Trump has reversed several positions from his past.
In 1999, contemplating a possible presidential run, Trump said he was pro-choice. Today, he is against abortion. He previously praised the idea of a national, single-payer health-care system. Today, while aiming his fire at the president's health-care law, he doesn't.
Trump also seems to have backed off another unusual idea: a one-time mega-tax on the nation's very wealthy. In 2000, Trump advocated a 14.25 percent tax on people with a net worth over $10 million, which he estimated would raise $5.7 trillion and pay off the national debt in one swoop.
"It's a win-win for the American people but an idea that no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward," Trump wrote in his 2000 book, "The America We Deserve."
Trump doesn't mention that idea now.
"The numbers no longer work," because the national debt is higher, said one longtime friend, who asked for anonymity in order to speak about Trump's thinking without authorization from his campaign. "It was a good idea at the time. We should've done it. We'd be out of debt now. Or maybe not."
Today, when Trump talks about taxes, he usually talks about lowering them.
He has called for eliminating the estate tax. Lowering personal income taxes. Other Republicans say the same. But Trump has gone much further in one respect. In his 2011 policy book, "Time to Get Tough," Trump called for eliminating the income tax on corporations entirely: "A zero percent corporate tax would create an unprecedented jobs boom," he wrote.
But it would also open a sinkhole in the federal budget. About 9 percent of all government revenue would vanish.
At the same time, Trump has contemplated expensive new plans. To fight the Islamic State, for instance, he has advocated a military campaign aimed at removing the oil out from under the militants' territory.
"Take back their wealth. Take back the oil. . . . You bomb the hell out of them and then you encircle it, and then you go in" with an oil company, Trump has said. "Once you take that oil, they have nothing left. And it's so simple."
Oil-industry experts expressed skepticism about this plan. Skepticism, in fact, may not be a strong-enough word. They noted, for instance, the difficulty of finding a company willing to get oil out of an active war zone, and that depleting the area's relatively minor oil fields might still take decades.
"That is sheer lunacy on so many counts, it's hard to start," said David Goldwyn , a former State Department special envoy for energy in the Obama administration.
At the same time, Trump - a real-estate developer now imagining himself in charge of the largest property owner in the country - has a lot of ideas for things to build at home.
Highways. A fortified border. Better VA hospitals to replace what Trump called "outdated dumps."
"When he comes up against a problem, his reflexive answer is that we'll do something to fix it that's going to cost more money," said Michael Tanner, of the libertarian Cato Institute.
He said Trump had not explained enough about how these big projects would be paid for as tax revenue declined. "You can't spend more and collect less. That's kind of basic math," Tanner said. "You can argue about how the math adds up in the other people's plans. But there's math there. This, there's just no math."
That's where the other countries come in.
In his 2011 book, for instance, Trump called for a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from China if China wouldn't stop unfair trade practices. Trump has also called for increased tariffs on imports from Mexico in order to pay for his wall.
He would also threaten American companies with tariffs if those companies wanted to shift U.S. jobs overseas.
"I would call up the head of Ford, who I know. If I was president, I'd say, 'Congratulations. I understand that you're building a nice $2.5 billion car factory in Mexico and that you're going to take your cars and sell them to the United States, zero tax,' " Trump said during his campaign announcement. "So I would say, 'Congratulations. That's the good news. Let me give you the bad news . . . we're going to charge you a 35 percent tax.' "
But these plans would not be easy. Even for President Trump.
Even if Trump could get Congress to approve new tariff increases, for instance, they would likely violate existing trade agreements. And they would hit Americans in the pocketbook by making imported goods more expensive. And, probably, they would trigger retaliations from other countries, which would raise their own tariffs and hurt U.S. exports.
"If you thought this had a ghost of a chance - which it doesn't - you would sell all your stocks," because of the damage that a trade war would do to the U.S. economy, said Gary Hufbauer , of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Hufbauer said that the United States has spent decades trying to lower tariffs worldwide. "This would be the U.S. kind of going into the insane asylum," he said. "It would be blowing up the system which we have created since the Second World War."
In Trump's plan, the thing that makes it all work is . . . Trump. This confidence is not new. Back in 2000, Trump wrote that - if elected president - he would appoint a new U.S. trade representative.
Guess who.
"My lawyers have checked, and the president has this authority," Trump wrote then. "Our trading partners would have to sit across the table from Donald Trump."
This year, Trump said he believed those same deal-making skills could also improve U.S. relations with an unpredictable rival: Russian President Vladi-mir Putin.
"I would be willing to bet I would have a great relationship with Putin. It's about leadership," he told Fox's O'Reilly.
"Based on what?" O'Reilly asked. "You're two macho guys?"
"Based on a feel."
"Just a feel?"
"Based on feel," Trump replied.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-trump-platform-because-i-said-so/2015/08/01/4684802c-36f7-11e5-9739-170df8af8eb9_story.htmlhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=df5_1438494398frenemyoftheCenturyDonald Trump:Make China pay for taking our jobsDonald Trump,make America great again, make everyone pay for american greatness,screw the world&quot;Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Have That Abortion&quot; According To Planned ParenthoodSun, 02 Aug 2015 00:39:18 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2dd_1438489990
UnbeeliveableIrving, CA, - The Center For Medical Progress, (CMP), the organization responsible for exposing Planned Parenthood doctors discussing the illegal sale of dead baby parts, has reportedly unearthed another shocking discovery that could provide the final nail in Planned Parenthood's coffin.
Sources say CMP has linked Planned Parenthood to a series of pamphlets that encourage (bribe) young women to abort their babies in exchange for various rewards. The pamphlets are distributed throughout poor neighborhoods, targeting society's most vulnerable. In addition to offers of transportation and gifts, the pamphlets contain a "Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Have That Abortion" list that is shockingly disturbing.
If this offensive list teaches us anything, it offers a glimpse into the liberal mindset
10. Make a Political Statement
Let those crazy Christian conservative types know who's in charge. It's your body and it's your choice. Show them what true freedom looks like.
09. It May Not Be Legal Much Longer
Republican lawmakers across the country are making it increasingly difficult to terminate your unwanted pregnancy. Through legislation they are installing waiting periods (up to 72 hours), mandatory ultrasounds, and even requiring doctors to tell their patients that fetuses feel pain. Before you know it, you will no longer have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
08. Freedom to be You
A house party here, a barbecue there, you're a spontaneous gal that likes to keep her options open. Having to care for an infant 24/7 would put a serious damper on your social life.
07. The World is Overpopulated
As of July 2015, the world's human population is estimated to be 7.25 billion by the United States Census Bureau. A current estimate for the Earth's carrying capacity is 4 billion. Our planet is overpopulated.
06. Climate Change/Global Warming
Man-made climate change is happening and our Republican leaders either (A) don't care or (B) are ordered by their corporate donors (big oil/coal) to deny and distort the facts that 97% of the scientific community believes to be true. With Republicans gaining full control of Congress and a likely presidential win 2016, Planet Earth will be uninhabitable for future generations.
05. Income Inequality/Equal Pay/ Gov't Assistance
Unless you're part of the 1% chances are you have to fight to make ends meet. On average, full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. The days of one income supporting a family are long gone. Republicans are making it harder for single mothers to qualify for programs such as WIC, health insurance, and public housing. While conservatives claim to be pro-life, as soon as that baby is born they will brand you and your child moochers and ridicule you for being poor. It will be much easier for you to climb that social ladder without the unnecessary weight of a child.
04. You Won't Have to Give up Smoking, Drinking, or Hard Drugs
This might sound a bit selfish but you deserve to be happy. If drinking, smoking, and doing drugs fits your lifestyle then why give all that up for an unwanted pregnancy? You can't have both, unless you want a disfigured flipper baby who will need even more attention and care than a healthy child.
03. Your Man Won't Know You're Sleeping Around
The last thing you want is winding up on the Maury Povich show looking like a ghetto tramp in front of the entire country as you go through five or more guys trying to find out who the baby daddy is.
02. Your Vagina Will Never Look the Same
Pretty self-explanatory though there's nothing pretty about it. Child birth does a number on your lady parts, sometimes stretching the labia out so far that it stays that way post birth, requiring cosmetic surgery to correct.
01. You Won't Lose Your Figure
Having a baby can really wreak havoc on a woman's figure. You can expect to gain at least 30- 50lbs, and once the baby is born you may not be able to shed the extra weight. The majority of the fat will stick to your belly and thighs. Do you like your body the way it is? If the answer is yes then the last thing you want to do is carry to full term.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2dd_1438489990Unbeeliveable&quot;Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Have That Abortion&quot; According To Planned ParenthoodPlanned Parenthood, abortionCrimean slavers butt-hurt, [The Donald] Thump has historically accurate position on Germany running Europe. Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:41:30 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ce_1438474327
mvlazysusanThe Turks are all up-tight they lost Crimea to those Rooskies who were over getting "raided" and sold into slavery by the Turks Lets see what wikapedia has to say about Crimea before the Rooskies snatched it:
&gt;""Until the beginning of the 18th century, Crimean Tatars were known for frequent, at some periods almost annual, devastating raids into Ukraine and Russia. For a long time, until the late 18th century, the Crimean Khanate maintained a massive slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East which was the most important basis of its economy. One of the most important trading ports and slave markets was Kefe . Slaves and freedmen formed approximately 75% of the Crimean population.
Some researchers estimate that altogether up to 3 million people were captured and enslaved during the time of the Crimean Khanate. On the other hand, lands of Crimean Tatars were also being raided by Zaporozhian Cossacks , armed Slavic horsemen, who defended the steppe frontier - Wild Fields - against Tatar slave raids and often attacked and plundered the lands of Ottoman Turks and Crimean Tatars. The Don Cossacks and Kalmyk Mongols also managed to raid Crimean Tatars' land. The last recorded major Crimean raid, before those in the Russo-Turkish War (1768-74) took place during the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725) However, Cossack raids continued after that time; Ottoman Grand Vizier complained to the Russian consul about raids to Crimea and "Ozi in 1761. In 1769 one last major Tatar raid, which took place during the Russo-Turkish War , saw the capture of 20,000 slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars#Slave_trade
So, the Turks are holding a big pow-wow
&gt;""
Dzhemilev said at the second World Congress of Crimean Tatars in Ankara on August 1.
Read more on UNIAN: http://www.unian.info/politics/1107172-dzhemilev-doesnt-rule-out-crimean-tatar-military-formation-in-kherson.html
Dzhemilev doesn't rule out CrimeanTatar military formation in Kherson
Read more on UNIAN: http://www.unian.info/politics/1107172-dzhemilev-doesnt-rule-out-crimean-tatar-military-formation-in-kherson.html
http://www.unian.info/politics/1107172-dzhemilev-doesnt-rule-out-crimean-tatar-military-formation-in-kherson.html
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So, PorkO called up and promised an "autonomous Tartarstan" on Crimea if those Turks, er, I mean Tartars would somehow win a battle with the second largest military force on the planet, Russia.
See: http://www.unian.info/politics/1107188-poroshenko-crimea-to-have-status-of-national-territorial-autonomy-within-ukraine.html
A word of advice for PorkO: Kiev is a Turkic place name (K"ui = riverbank + ev = settlement). If I were PorkO, and the Turks, er, I mean Tartars did defeat Russia militarily, I would be a bit concerned the Turks would want Kiev back also!
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And here is The Donald talking about where we get the very word "slavery" from
What's in a name? . Aristotle called slaves 'human instruments' signifying their use as tools. . Fifth-century Anglo-Saxons called their slaves 'Welshman', after the people they captured. . The word 'slave' is adapted from Slav, originating from the time when the Germans supplied the slave markets of Europe with captured Slavs . - See more at: http://newint.org/features/2001/08/05/history/#sthash.NSbe0OOk.dpuf
... I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ce_1438474327mvlazysusanCrimean slavers butt-hurt, [The Donald] Thump has historically accurate position on Germany running Europe. ukraine, proxy, war, How laws are madeSat, 01 Aug 2015 17:48:14 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb2_1438465584
LiveSealCongress literally doesn't care what you think. You believe this?http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb2_1438465584LiveSealHow laws are madelobby, politicians, briberyIran publishes book on how to outwit US and destroy IsraelSat, 01 Aug 2015 17:23:01 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd3_1438463714
ExileOnMainStreetDamn, I could have written this book myself. Good job Obama and Co. And heaven help the GOP in Congress who fail to do something about this international disaster of a deal.
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While Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama do their best to paper over the brutality of the Iranian regime and force through a nuclear agreement, Iran's religious leader has another issue on his mind: The destruction of Israel.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book called "Palestine," a 416-page screed against the Jewish state. A blurb on the back cover credits Khamenei as "The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem."
A friend sent me a copy from Iran, the only place the book is currently available, though an Arabic translation is promised soon.
Obama administration officials likely hope that no American even hears about it.
'Reclaiming Muslim lands'Khamenei makes his position clear from the start: Israel has no right to exist as a state.
He uses three words. One is "nabudi" which means "annihilation." The other is "imha" which means "fading out," and, finally, there is "zaval" meaning "effacement."
Khamenei claims that his strategy for the destruction of Israel is not based on anti-Semitism, which he describes as a European phenomenon. His position is instead based on "well-established Islamic principles."
One such principle is that a land that falls under Muslim rule, even briefly, can never again be ceded to non-Muslims. What matters in Islam is ownership of a land's government, even if the majority of inhabitants are non-Muslims.
Khomeinists are not alone in this belief.
Dozens of maps circulate in the Muslim world showing the extent of Muslim territories lost to the Infidel that must be recovered.
These include large parts of Russia and Europe, almost a third of China, the whole of India and parts of The Philippines and Thailand.
However, according to Khamenei, Israel, which he labels as "adou" and "doshman," meaning "enemy" and "foe," is a special case for three reasons.
The first is that it is a loyal "ally of the American Great Satan" and a key element in its "evil scheme" to dominate "the heartland of the Ummah."
The second reason is that Israel has waged war on Muslims on a number of occasions, thus becoming "a hostile infidel," or "kaffir al-harbi."
Finally, Israel is a special case because it occupies Jerusalem, which Khamenei describes as "Islam's third Holy City."
He intimates that one of his "most cherished wishes" is to one day pray in Jerusalem.
'Israel fatigue'Khamenei insists that he is not recommending "classical wars" to wipe Israel off the map. Nor does he want to "massacre the Jews." What he recommends is a long period of low-intensity warfare designed to make life unpleasant if not impossible for a majority of Israeli Jews so that they leave the country.
His calculation is based on the assumption that large numbers of Israelis have double-nationality and would prefer emigration to the United States and Europe to daily threats of death.
Khamenei makes no reference to Iran's nuclear program. But the subtext is that a nuclear-armed Iran would make Israel think twice before trying to counter Khamenei's strategy by taking military action against the Islamic Republic.
In Khamenei's analysis, once the cost of staying in Israel has become too high for many Jews, Western powers, notably the US, which have supported the Jewish state for decades, might decide that the cost of doing so is higher than possible benefits.
Thanks to President Obama, the US has already distanced itself from Israel to a degree unimaginable a decade ago.
Khamenei counts on what he sees as "Israel fatigue." The international community would start looking for what he calls "a practical and logical mechanism" to end the old conflict.
Khamenei's "practical and logical mechanism" excludes the two-state formula in any form.
"The solution is a one-state formula," he declares. That state, to be called Palestine, would be under Muslim rule but would allow non-Muslims, including some Israeli Jews who could prove "genuine roots" in the region to stay as "protected minorities."
Under Khamenei's scheme, Israel, plus the West Bank and Gaza, would revert to a United Nations mandate for a brief period during which a referendum is held to create the new state of Palestine.
All Palestinians and their descendants, wherever they are, would be able to vote, while Jews "who have come from other places" would be excluded.
Khamenei does not mention any figures for possible voters in his dream referendum. But studies by the Islamic Foreign Ministry in Tehran suggest that at least eight million Palestinians across the globe would be able to vote against 2.2 million Jews "acceptable" as future second-class citizens of new Palestine. Thus, the "Supreme Guide" is certain of the results of his proposed referendum.
He does not make clear whether the Kingdom of Jordan, which is located in 80% of historic Palestine, would be included in his one-state scheme. However, a majority of Jordanians are of Palestinian extraction and would be able to vote in the referendum and, logically, become citizens of the new Palestine.
Holocaust 'propaganda'Khamenei boasts about the success of his plans to make life impossible for Israelis through terror attacks from Lebanon and Gaza. His latest scheme is to recruit "fighters" in the West Bank to set up Hezbollah-style units.
"We have intervened in anti-Israel matters, and it brought victory in the 33-day war by Hezbollah against Israel in 2006 and in the 22-day war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip," he boasts.
Khamenei describes Israel as "a cancerous tumor" whose elimination would mean that "the West's hegemony and threats will be discredited" in the Middle East. In its place, he boasts, "the hegemony of Iran will be promoted."
Khamenei's book also deals with the Holocaust which he regards either as "a propaganda ploy" or a disputed claim. "If there was such a thing," he writes, "we don't know why it happened and how."
This is what Iran's leaders are preaching to their people and their allies in the Middle East. Do we really want to give succor?
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Join us in raising our voices to protest Netanyahu's speech,
not because it's a partisan snub, nor because the date is close to the
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harsher sanctions on Iran, all but ensuring that talks collapse and
increasing the risk of war.
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Gold used the term twice in a presentation Wednesday in New York focused on the shortcomings of the Iran nuclear deal .
"What we have is a regime on a roll that is trying to conquer the Middle East," Gold said of Iran, "and it's not Israel talking, that is our Sunni Arab neighbors - and you know what? I'll use another expression - that is our Sunni Arab allies talking."
Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and a longtime adviser to Israeli prime ministers from the right-wing Likud Party, is also the author of a 2003 book on Saudi Arabia called "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism." Saudi Arabia has been one of the most vocal Arab opponents of U.S.-Iran rapprochement and the Iran nuclear agreement.
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